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One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.

To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business. Bidding him be a good child, and mind his book. Addison.

One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person. [Eng.] Dickens.

To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular. The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. Matt. xx. 28.

Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant. Enlightening spirits and ministerial flames. Prior.

Performing service as a minister; attendant on service; acting under command; subordinate. "Princedoms and dominations ministrant." Milton. -- n.

A point of time; a moment. I go this minute to attend the king. Dryden.

agazine. Monthly nurse, a nurse who serves for a month or some short time, esp. one which attends women after childbirth.

voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest. Speaking or mute, all comeliness and grace attends thee, and each word, each motion, forms. Milton.

One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner. Mourners were provided to attend the funeral. L'Estrange.

Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. [Archaic or Poetic] The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.

ich is very destructive to silkworms, and which sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the development of a fungus (provisionally called Botrytis bassiana). Also, the fungus itself.

Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.

One's birth, or the circumstances attending it. [Obs.] Fitz- Geffry.

The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc. Chaucer. I have served him from the hour of my nativity. Shak. Thou hast left ... the land of thy nativity. Ruth ii. 11. These in their dark nativity the deep Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame…

Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts. I hope My absence doth neglect no great designs. Shak. This, my long suffering and my day of…

A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.

Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference. "Nominal attendance on lectures." Macaulay.

To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to. Pope. No more of that; I have noted it well. Shak.

To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon. Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age. Milton. Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore. Dryden.